I enjoyed the far future timeline aspect and the spore drive was a cool way to get around warp lane deterioration. But the show is especially preachy, like more than any other star trek in its overt preaching. It detracted way too much from the intent of star trek. I mean just look at how TNG dealt with gender identity issues it was much more nuanced with Riker's love with the nonbinary alien species. Hell, I even enjoyed the Oriville's take more with Bortus's child. But for some reason, it felt like every single episode of discovery is just so damn preachy they never let the moments breath or let the audience discover the message themselves its always just so God damn overt.